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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

by Warsan Shire (Goodreads Author)

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The Rising of the Moon

by Lady Gregory

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Blasted

by Sarah Kane

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“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
― Mark Twain, What is Man?

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